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  David Hirschberg

  

  6 days ago

  The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn

  WIRED - Anna Lagos

  A week ago, two bodies believed to be a muddle of human and animal bones were presented in Mexico’s Congress as proof of alien life. Now the …

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  David Hirschberg

  

  6 days ago

  U.S. Will Allow Nearly 500,000 Venezuelan Migrants to Work Legally

  The New York Times - Nicholas Fandos

  The Biden administration said late Wednesday that it would allow hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans already in the United States to live and work legally in the country for 18 months. The decision followed intense advocacy by top New York Democrats, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams …

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  David Hirschberg

  

  Sep 19

  A Study Says You Owe Your Existence to Just 1,280 Humans Who Almost Went Extinct

  Popular Mechanics - Tim Newcomb

  Thanks, guys. A group of researchers just published a paper in the journal Science claiming that there was a “severe bottleneck” in the human population chain—one so stark that human ancestors were down to about 1,280 breeding individuals 930,000 years ago, almost wiping out the human population. Get …

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  David Hirschberg

  

  Mycocrete: New material made of fungi hopes to replace concrete in construction projects

  earth.com - Eric Ralls

  In an exciting step forward for sustainable construction and biofabrication, a team of scientists has developed a new material called mycocrete. …

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  David Hirschberg

  

  The Republican Lab-Leak Circus Makes One Important Point

  The Atlantic - Daniel Engber

  “Lab leak” has too many meanings. For more than three hours yesterday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic grilled a pair of virologists about their participation in an alleged “cover-up” of the pandemic’s origins. Republican lawmakers zeroed in on evidence that the witnesses, …

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  David Hirschberg

  

  What exactly is lab-grown meat? Here’s what you need to know.

  National Geographic - Kieran Mulvaney

  It’s “the same thing as traditional meat,” scientists say, but with “the animal taken out of the equation.” This month, diners in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. will be the first in the U.S., and among the first in the world, to chow down on what some argue is the food of the future: meat …